Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
291 pages : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-288). |
Summary |
Journalist Casey first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, some longer than twenty feet, swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. In a few months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island, just 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco--dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close, and she was hooked.--From publisher description. |
Subject |
White shark -- California -- Farallon Islands -- Anecdotes.
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White shark. |
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California -- Farallon Islands. |
Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Subject |
Casey, Susan, 1962-
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Casey, Susan, 1962- |
Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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ISBN |
080507581X |
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